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Our days are numbered..... AMEN!

hopefully you were laying on your back by choice when you took that.......very nice.

I'm okay . I have from Oct 1 - Dec 22 to take deer . I have been retired since 1998 and work part time a couple days a week . Any doe in the freezer is fine .

Nice...For some of you...Nosebleed country for me... No way would you get MY old fat ass on that platform !!

My dad used to tell us as kids that the lack of knock down power excuse was only used by people who couldn't hit where they were aiming.

7 pm tonight ..... Channel 13 . "Is there any place you'd rather be than right here , right now" !

He made it to a nine point all right!

WNYBH...put that stick away...didn't you read the signs....no poking the animals...

So now an already faulty harvest reporting system will be made even more unreliable as bowhunters turn in all kinds of doe take successes that never really happened, just to satisfy the DEC's secret bowhunter harvest goals.

Funny how our local Agway sells out od corn, salt licks, c'mere deer and oats-grain by the midfle of September! Go figure..........

I actually forgot my true worst mishap with a gun. My truck was at the dealer getting warranty work and they gave me a loaner. Decided to head to the range to shoot my new to me CZ premium 30-06. Put the cased gun on top of the loaner since I had to open the trunk to load other equipment. Loaded equipment and off to the range. You guessed it, get to the range and where is my gun? Holy smokes, I forgot it on the roof of the car. Several trips back and forth looking for the case on the side of the road and nothing. Not knowing what to do, I call the police and explain what happened. 2 days later, cops call to say that someone found my gun and had put it on the lost and found on craigslist. They return it with no damage. I call the young man who turned it in and he refused to accept a reward, explaining that he saw it lying in the side of the road in front of my street and grabbed it before another truck that had stopped. Nice to know we have some honest people around. I really wanted to do something for him, but he just wouldn't have it and complimented the gun.

Its nice to see the woods " come alive " !

So the wife and I went down to the Florida Keys last week for our first anniversary. Not sure if you were aware, but there is a sub species of weight tailed deer that live down there called "Key Deer". I thought I would share some pictures of a nice buck that we saw while we were down there. And yes, that is a normal sized sign next to it. They are the smallest sub species of deer. I have some better pics on the actual camera, but the phone ones were easier to upload. You can't hunt them, but I'm thinking about going down and trying to find some sheds from this boy. Would make nice compact rattling antlers. ????

https://youtu.be/Z1vk2SsWRdA

nice....

Having had a small stroke (no lasting effects), I try to compromise between pure walking, and riding. I live at the base of what I have nick-named "Cardiac hill". We did lose a neighbor to a heart attack on that hill, so it is aptly named. So unless I am still-hunting my way up the hill, I take the ATV. I drive to just under the ridge of the hill and park and then start walking quite a ways back in. In the pre-dawn hours, that keeps me from getting all sweated up, and the machine is silent for at least a half hour while I quietly go up over the lip of the hill and back to my stand up on the level hilltop. The last couple of years, I have used the ATV for taking the deer off the hill when possible. During gun season, we usually have a bit of snow on the ground, and that makes the hill a bit treacherous for ATVs. It can and has turned into a bobsled. So when there is too much snow, I just take a very slow, post daybreak still-hunt up the killer hill and across the top. I don't have any problem with the use of ATVs, even for the youngsters as long as it doesn't interfere with someone else's hunt.

C'mon over and rake my leaves while I watch football !

LOL, I like to have breakfast in my stands and be done by at least an hour before sunrise.

Rob while I may in theory have all that time to kill a big buck, in practice I don't . Around me within say 1/2 mile or a bit more from my spot there will be 4 or 5 slobs taken prior to opening day of gun . Last year in bow I had 6 encounters with large bucks( out of 14 hunts) , most a little out of bow range , one ten yards but bad angle and to much brush . Such is bow..... I had zero encounters last gun season . I'm a hunter , not a "bow hunter" or " gun hunter" or "ML Hunter ", but I know when my best chances are and hunt accordingly. I don't expect to catch a Bass in a Trout stream and I don't expect to see the same number of large bucks in gun much past opening day .

Thanks everyone for getting in on this, it's been interesting fun. I'm with moog on this one. By the way, anyone looking for a pair of boots on the cheap?

I think it would be best to leave the ATV at camp - get to your stand silently - shoot - go back and get your ATV to retrieve your deer ! Just an opinion !

I'm hoping for a uneventful preseason...that is no significant injuries, Cassell becomes a decent field general, they show nothing, go 0-4, and turn it on when real bullets fly...Hope i wasn't too violent about the bullet thing... Don't miss Marshawn. Turned out to be a decent player, but alot of baggage with that guy. EJ looks to be a bust, unless that linebacker that punched the Jet qb knocks some sense into him...Just kiddin'

But back then the telegraph didn't get work around as quickly...lol

Wonder if that will be phase 4 after their first 3 brain farts fail to sole their "critical need"

I dont think you understand the point. That doesnt surprise me in the least. I also dont think you understand anything about me or how/why I hunt, or what I do to give back to the youth, and hunting community. You can keep throwing other people/groups facebook sites or links out there all you want, but it all sounds like blah blah blah blah blah to me.

Oh come on. Where's your sense of fun. Don't you like the carnival atmosphere where you get all dressed up in your blaze orange finery wave at all the guys as they stumble past your stand? Look, your getting too hung up on all the skill and challenge of actually studying the habits of an un-stressed herd and trying to pattern the natural movements of deer and trying to figure out how to set up a harvest through outsmarting the critter. Let all the other hunters do the work for you. It will be like one huge all-day drive where you can test out your shooting skills at the panicked deer dashing by. Gee, doesn't that sound like fun?

When I was there he said he had several bags at that time in stock...I failed to ask him the price for Ididn't think I'd need it at the time....I f you do let me know

Probably shouldn't be patting too many coyotes on the head over being such good friends for the bird population until they check with the turkey population out there ....lol. Yeah, the kitty population has been long known to be the scourge of the bird populations. But it isn't only the ones that have gone wild. I suspect that the domestic tabby that always shows up at home each day gets his share of birds as well. Pet owners who think it is great to let their pets run free, seldom think of the efficiency of these exceptional predators.

Eddie- It's not whether I can get a doe or even a buck that has me upset. It is simply the stupidity of the change, and the fact that the DEC seems to be going out of their way to single out bowhunters with the responsibility of maintaining deer population management (or else!). Their current attitudes toward bowhunters indicates that they really have a problem with bowhunters occupying some premium season time and intend to change that situation, which of course cannot bode well for anyone who enjoys the change of pace that bowhunting provides. I too have a pile of days to fill the freezer, but still the shoddy treatment and strong-arm tactics being used on bowhunters is pretty irritating to me. And so, I am not ok with it.

Its plain and simple and only common sense if the hunting license year is valid Sep 1st through Aug 31st then the recent tags are voided, it was only legal because the loop hole in recent years license year was Oct 1st to Sep 31st and Early Bow opened before Sep 31st but now that license year starts Sep 1st and Bow opens after Sep 1st you cant use old tags from past year.

Only had one mishap with a rifle. I was shooting my muzzleloader at the range. Had the rifle open and slung over the sand bag rest. I forgot what I was grabbing but I bent over to get something that was between my legs and my shoulder hits the rifle. Rifle does a 360 off the bench and landed on the scope. Scope was bent to bad that I couldn't pull back the hammer because the eye piece was right on top of it.

turkeyfeathers , did the guy with the Jaguar have a bumper sticker that said "If you don't like my driving , stay off the sidewalk" ?

If it is..., it's the first I've ever seen here, or at least noticed and gotten a pic of and I'm determined to get better shots. Coming back from the fields photographing deer tonight when I found this guy at the pond. Now I have a legitimate reason to hide in the bushes there! (inside joke a few here will get) It was pretty dark when I left the fields so I had all my settings cranked pretty high allowing me to pull these off but they are cropped tight and pretty grainy. By the time I spotted this guy all I could really see was a silhouette in the sky and did the best I could to lift some detail out of them in post. So..... is it an osprey or another raptor I'm unfamiliar with? I've said it before and I'll say it again.... I' not very good with bird ID's, but I think that's what it is.. but I could be wrong, that's why I ask.

Really they work pretty good.

Dont bother spending the cash on the buck in a bag Secret Spot, or Throw N Grow stuff. Buy a cheap bag of winter rye from your local Agway or farm seed shop. The vast majority of that buck on a bag stuff is rye grass seed anyhow. The winter rye will do fine, Ive used it in the woods on heavily shaded trails before with good success.

I hunt with all of them.

I like to be in the stand 30 mins or so before it gets light during bow season, or if I have my daughter with me. During gun I wait till first light to walk in. If I wasnt in the stand before first light, I might miss my opportunity to shoot one 10 mins before legal time. Wouldnt want to miss out on that.

Yes. I'd file an eeoc claim and win.

Sure would. They'd get more does shot the first hour than this current plan though but they'd never mess with the regular season

Not a gun mishap…but..years ago a friend and I were bow hunting. We hunted until noon. We got back to his Ford Bronco and loaded up to head home. We headed down the seasonal road about 100 yards and stopped at the stop sign at the paved road. He stopped kind of fast and "Scrape, bang, thud!!" My friend had left his bow on the roof, just above the windshield. When he stopped it slid off, skidded across the hood and ended up oh the pavement in the middle of the road. The stabilizer and all of his sights snapped off and the fletching on his arrows were shot. it also scratch the hell out of the hood of his nice shinny Bronco.. He blamed me all the way home!!! LOL!!

simple gunvault safe on the bedstand or at the very lease a loaded mag in a separate compartment.

That this has gone on for 4 pages is funny. Whether its ethical or not is dictated by the terms of the company giving the discount. If the store says "buy as many as you want and do what you want with them", then no ethical concerns in reselling. If the store says "discounted items can only be purchased for personal use", then the answer is obvious. IMO

Good shots Wooly. Osprey are weird. They nest in fairly high densities in some parts of the state. In other parts - where there are good nesting sites and plenty of food - there are few or none. My area for example - Chenango, Otsego, Delaware - has very few Osprey but many Bald Eagles nesting. The balds are eating a lot of warm water fish which would also be easy pickings for Osprey. I was at an eagle banding next to Otsego Lake a month or so ago. Even though it is a cold water lake, there are warm water areas. The adult eagles were feeding mostly chain pickerel. One was carrying one around but the nest was full of heads. Warm water fish like bass and bluegills are easy for eagles and osprey to catch. I've been told that at Montezuma, the eagles eat a lot of carp. I get Osprey at my largest farm pond during migration. Sometimes I will find a fish head in a hedgerow.

"....planting some things here and there...." what does that mean?

All guys that think you get in the woods before "first light" are crazy, nobody beats me to the stand!! lol

We usually get to the stands just before or at first light. I have been in stands an hour before sunrise and I must admit I do like it but have found it is not always needed and would rather sleep in bed vs a tree stand. The higher the deer population in the area I hunt sometimes dictates an early entry. Low populations have much less chance of spooking the deer. The distance to travel to the stand also can cause me to want to get in early. Long hike going through many different area's and I want to be at the stand by first light or earlier. The residential area's not so much as the hike is less than 300-400 yards with many less than 100 yards and very little disturbance to get in.

What do you think this will do further lifetime sales.....

no real need to own a mz now...

May take awhile when you have NYBowhunters spilling all kinds of garbage and lies to the politicians in Albany.